Hypersomnia
Hypersomnia is a condition in which you feel excessive sleepiness during the day. It may occur even after long stretches of sleep. Another name for hypersomnia is excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Hypersomnia can be a primary condition or a secondary condition.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W098
Diagnosis: Hypersomnia
US Patients: 5-10%
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M+;W
Age Onset:
Brain Area:
Symptoms: lack of alertness in daytime; prolonged night sleep for 3 months;sleep drunkenness-difficulty waking up;
Progression: Most other major diseases have hypersomnias and inability to have refreshing delta sleep at night.
Causes: narcolepsy, sleep apnea, reaction to medications,
Medications: modafinil is helpful.
Therapies: Using beds only for sleep and sex helps.
Youtube Video: Breakthroughs in the Management of
Idiopathic Hypersomnia
Amazon or Library Book: A Guide: How to Focus and be productive with oversleeping
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Support Group: hypersomniaalliance.com; 678-842-3512 (hypersomniafoundation.org)
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- Gender differences in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: a pilot studyby Antonio Fabozzi on May 8, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Men were associated with a higher AHI when sleeping in the supine position and this may be useful to look for new therapeutic options in combination with or as an alternative to CPAP. BMI correlated positively with AHI in men and this should be considered to stimulate weight loss as the main treatment to reduce the number of apneas/hypopneas, as men also had less therapeutic adherence to CPAP in our study. Females presented a significantly higher frequency of hypopneas than men, as...
- Sex-specific differences in presenting symptoms of obstructive sleep apneaby Abhishek Goyal on May 3, 2024
CONCLUSION: Women with OSA are more obese, elderly, and with higher fasting blood glucose than males at the time of diagnosis. Females have a higher prevalence of symptoms like fatigability, depression, nocturia and early morning headache and had more severe AHI than males.
- Post-marketing surveillance of quetiapine fumarate extended-release tablets in patients with bipolar depressionby Taro Kishi on April 30, 2024
CONCLUSION: The efficacy of quetiapine fumarate extended-release tablets was confirmed in clinical practice, and no new safety concerns or risks were identified.
- Research Progress in the Correlation Between Dopamine and Clinical Characterization of Narcolepsyby Wan-Yu Zhao on April 30, 2024
Dopamine,a neurotransmitter ubiquitous in the body fluids,blood,and urine of mammals and humans,is responsible for regulating their functions and metabolism.The dopamine system is involved in the neurobiological mechanisms of narcolepsy in animals and humans.However,researchers have drawn different or even opposite conclusions when measuring the dopamine level in the cerebrospinal fluid of narcolepsy patients.Studies have confirmed that the occurrence of narcolepsy is related to the irreversible...